Leonard Lopate’s 25 minute interview on the history of guardianship and probate exploitation in Clark County Nevada (Las Vegas) as sponsored by judges for 30 years. Writer Rachel Aviv, and Terry Williams who was featured in the October 9, 2017 issue of The New Yorker for her research as a result of the fraudulent takeover of her father’s estate, discuss the history of guardianship in Clark County and the exploitive actions of public guardian turned private guardian Jared Shafer [- more...]

An SRO crowd–some of whom traveled for days to attend from as far away as Wisconsin– of several dozens of family member/victims of Guardianship Abuse in PBC and elsewhere made it abundantly clear that there has been and continues to be an outrageous miscarriage of justice in the PBC probate courts for many years. Families have been ruined, innocent people arrested in retribution for complaining, estates looted, wards abused to death and yet the court insider perpetrators of these [- more...]

AAAPG is staffed by volunteers who spend their time and money traveling across America, raising awareness of the dangers of guardianship abuse, as conducted by courts in almost all 50 states, and advocating on behalf of our members, as we seek to reform how the courts conduct guardianship cases. Here are some of our most recent live appearances: May 17, 2017: AAAPG National Director Rick Black was hosted on BlogTalk Radio by F.A.C.E.U.S. founders Lulu Fleming and Robin Austin, discussing [- more...]

TO: Judge Christine Engustian of the Richmond Probate Court and her managers, The Town Council of Richmond, Rhode Island. Ms. Rita Cole, 90, resident of Cincinnati, OH, conscripted into guardianship in Rhode Island, Case No. 2016-15 had a net worth of $225,000 in May 2016 when attorney R.J. Connelly, III involuntarily conscripted her into guardianship. Rita was in Rhode Island visiting family and had Connelly modify her estate documents where he gained access to all her critical estate [- more...]

Who Guards the Guardians: Family laments mom’s fate under court guardianship By Colleen Heild / Journal Investigative Reporter Published: Sunday, March 12th, 2017 at 12:05am At the age of 91, Mary Louise Terry was getting by on food stamps and monthly Social Security checks, living under the care of her son in her home of 11 years on Belen’s main street. But a $100,000 insurance windfall Terry inherited after that son died in May 2015 marked the beginning of the end of her stable family [- more...]

Editor’s note: Investigative journalist Diane Dimond, whose weekly syndicated column on crime and justice appears in the Journal, is preparing a book on the nation’s elder guardianship system. It’s a system designed to protect the elderly from the unscrupulous. But as Dimond discovered, it can be dominated by a core group of court-appointed, for-profit professionals who are accused of isolating family members and draining the elders’ estates. New Mexico is no exception. This is the [- more...]

Doug Franks said he would never give up trying to free his beloved mother from a horrific guardianship that isolated and impoverished her. Doug was true to his word and with AAAPG at and on his side, he tirelessly traveled from Atlanta to Tallahassee to testify at countless hearings and sessions of the FLorida Legislature. He had to fight off multiple ruthless lawyers, trustees, guardians, stubborn judges, dishonest caregivers and mercenary banks, but in November Doug beat them all and got his [- more...]

https://www.texasobserver.org/guardianship-hearing-texas-senate/ David Slayton, Executive Director Texas Office of Court Administration is trying to expose the issue of fraudulent guardianships in Texas. This article highlights the Texas legislature’s current attempts to demand transparency and accountability to Texas law by the judiciary concerning adult guardianship rulings. Texas guardianship data is as suspect as Nevada when we started our efforts in late 2014. Slayton [- more...]